On 5 Sep 2022, at 14:18, Daniel Dickman <didickman@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> the lack of native code i386 in OCaml 5.0
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> Hi Anil, I haven't followed the ocaml lists but what is the reason to drop this out of curiosity?
It's a large burden to maintain i386 these days.
See https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/10540 <https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/10540> for
the initial attempt to remove it which has some of the
justifications. Then, the multicore merge in 5.0 simply
doesn't have support for i386, so it's gone by default
there. We preferred to put our efforts into (e.g.) the
RISC-V backend first, and PowerPC64 still needs to be
completed. i386 is pretty low on the list...
Anil
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